Flame & Citron

The Impure Morality of Nazi Resistance

In the movies, the romance of Nazi resistance movements, particularly those inside German-occupied countries, is rarely matched by the cruelty such duplicitous action must have demanded. In “The War: A Memoir,” the French writer Marguerite Duras, whose husband was deported to an extermination camp (he survived), recalls a female French Resistance fighter who calmly tortures an informer. The torturer compares her work to demolition. “Blow by blow,” Duras writes. “You have to hold out, stick it out. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3113 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 31 luglio 2009